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21
Jan 09

White MacBook now with 2.0Ghz and Nvidia 9400M graphics?

The Apple store is currently showing the white MacBook as “new” and shipping with NVidia 9400m graphics – the same chipset used in the new aluminum MacBooks. The speed is now also just 2.0 Ghz, down from 2.1 Ghz previously.

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It looks as though Apple has decided to move that model over to the new platform used in all the other current generation MacBooks.

However: the white model retains its Firewire 400 port, which might actually make the “cheap” plastic MacBook more interesting to some customers than the Firewire-less aluminum models.

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9
Nov 08

How to Transfer Your Data to a New Aluminum MacBook

Since the new Macbooks don’t offer a firewire port, you’ll need to use a network connection to transfer your data from an old Mac to your new Macbook.

Apple has made the process very simple though: the first time you boot up your new machine, you’ll be asked to pick another Mac on your network. I usually connect to my network via wireless LAN, which is a bit slow for large amounts of data, so I just connected my old and new Macbook via an ethernet cable. 

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